Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...project manager on a construction job employing about 150 union construction workers, I can perhaps answer Assistant Labor Secretary Arthur Fletcher's question, "Why should a Negro who can be a college-trained engineer want to be a plumber?" [Sept. 26]. He can make more money as a union plumber...
...rather over when the U.S. withdraws and what concessions, if any, it can get in return. Timing, of course, could make a major difference to the U.S.'s future position in Asia ? but it is not a difference for which many people are eager to sacrifice lives or money...
...challenge to show this Administration the outpouring of voter protest," declared Eugene Weisberg, a Denver industrialist and lifelong Republican. Reports Harold Willens, Western-states chairman of the Business Executives Move for Viet Nam Peace: "In the last two weeks, businessmen are suddenly ready to give money, and to do whatever they can. Somehow, deep down, Americans are beginning to realize that Richard Nixon is Lyndon Johnson." Nixon is not, of course, but some of his critics feel that Nixon's apparent disregard for public feeling on Viet Nam may come to parallel Johnson...
...kickbacks, assumed names and secret accounts in foreign banks that was allegedly run by Wooldridge and four fellow topkicks. The sergeants, some of whom were custodians of servicemen's clubs, were said to have skimmed $350,000 a year from club slot machines in Germany and used the money to set up their own company, Maredem, Ltd., to sell supplies at inflated prices to clubs in Viet Nam. Maredem's partners, who somehow managed to get transfers as a group, became custodians of the clubs in Viet Nam. Thus they, allegedly, sold goods to themselves. In 1968 alone...
...investigation has pointed up the lack of supervision of club affairs. Acting Subcommittee Chairman Abraham Ribicoff charged that the Army pays little attention to club funds because the money is not appropriated from the federal treasury but comes from the dues and spending of individual soldiers...